This seems to be a version of the lock described in the following article from the trade journal "Sheet Metal Industries" (vol. 60, 1982): _"A new type of locking system has been introduced by Salsbury Locks Ltd. Salsbury Locks has designed a lock that is claimed to be easy to service and that could be easily and quickly changed to operate with a different key when necessary. The result is known as the segmented instant differ cylinder system, in which the number of combinations possible is up to 4000 million. The locks operate with a dual-bladed key, which can be split in two if required so that the lock remains secure unless attended by both keyholders. Another advantage of the cylinder is that it is made in four lengths, which enables the user to select and control which personnel have access to different parts of an organisation."_ Salsbury Locks converted from a private to a public limited company (plc) in March 1984, but were recorded as dissolved by 1989. The lock is presumably an example of the design for which a US patent was applied by Michael A. Salsbury of South Godstone, England, in 1981 and granted (# 4429555) in February 1984.
4 billion possibility's would mean 16 tooths on each side, sounds more like a concept than a working product. but if they do make longer cilinders than this one and the frst 2 tooths of the key are identical to this one i think it is possible that its about the same product.
Patents Assigned to Multikey Ltd. Revolving cylinder locks Patent number: 4429555 Abstract: A revolving cylinder lock having a locking pin extending parallel to the axis of rotation of a barrel part within a cylindric passage and, in the locked condition, received in both a first cavity part extending into the wall of the passage and a second cavity part extending into the barrel and unlocking means angularly displaceable about the axis by a key to an unlocking position and retained between inner and outer guide surfaces and having an edge surface operatively associated with the outer guide surface and the pin and configured normally to retain the pin in the locked condition and, in the unlocking position to release the pin from engagement in the first cavity part and allow the barrel part to be rotatable relative to the housing, means being provided to urge the unlocking means away from the unlocking position. Type: Grant Filed: April 1, 1981 Date of Patent: February 7, 1984 Assignee: Multikey Ltd. Inventor: Michael A. Salsbury
My father Michael Salsbury designed this unique padlock in the early eighties as well as door locks, and I can see from the comment below from PastPresented, they have done some research and found out some information about Salsbury Locks, so thank you for sharing. Thank you also to LockPickingLawyer for sharing the dismantling and reassembly of the padlock! Michael Salsbury started a company called Multikey Security Services Ltd 50 years ago and it is still going strong, being run by my brother. He then set up Salsbury Locks which sadly dissolved by 1989. My father passed away a couple of years ago but would be chuffed to see one of his creations being played on RUclips!
This channel is truly incredible thanks to not only the videos but this information directly from the family of the lockmaker. Thank you so much for sharing and providing some background to your family history and the history of this unique design!
I would love to see a video of how you made the key. Not just the physical machining but also how you decoded the lock, how you determined the material you would use, designing the aesthetics of the key etc... I'd like to see, and learn, how you think through solutions.
Contemporary advertising shows that the original key had a flat bow/head (never knew the term until now!), offset slightly, with a large "S" in the style of the Salsbury logo, with what looks like the key serial number underneath. I did include a link to an copy of the image in an earlier comment, but it doesn't appear to be showing (possibly because of the URL).
He probably never decoded the lock. He just picked it, then disassembled it, then made an arbitrary key, then reassembled the lock around the key, thus rekeying the lock.
Watching him disassemble then reassemble the lock is one of the most fascinating sections I've seen in an LPL video and am intrigued enough to want more.
@@MrDo99er This. Not many people show themselves reassembling locks after breaking them down. This is the first LPL video that I can remember of him actually putting a lock back together on camera, and I wish he'd do it (both disassembly and reassembly) more often.
I *love* these videos. I got to the end of the disassembly, heard him start his normal close-out, and thought to myself “I kinda want to see how that’s put back together”…
Wow. A 9 minute video from LPL. That lock really got his attention! Fascinating to see the engineering and components inside. Kudos for the new key too
LPL gives it a "it's not going to stop a skilled picker for very long." Which sounds like a bad rating, but is actually pretty high praise for a lock featured on this channel.
I think this is the most fun I've seen LPL have in years, and not that he hasn't had fun, I could just feel the "man with a new toy vibe" in his voice!
Right when I was thinking "How the hell does he clean that yard sale up!" He cleans it up in just a minute. Very impressive. Thank you for showing the reassembly.
I really want to see the lock collection in it's entirety at some point. How do you store all those locks? How do you organize/categorize them? I know you value privacy and all that, but surely there's a way to let us experience that? Great content as always
I reckon LPL has a long footbridge in his back garden, with all the locks 'locked' onto the bridge (love-lock style), on one side, with all the keys hooked onto the other side 🙂 so nobody can steal them without first finding the right key! Or they go through a "Right-Of-Passage" and pick it off LOL!
His first lock in inside a box that is locked with his second lock, which is inside a box that is secured by his third lock, and so on. It takes him about twenty minutes to access the first lock, and even less time if he uses the keys.
I like to imagine he locks them all together into one giant chain and hangs in around his living room like garland. Could even hang ornaments on for the festive times of year.
Except he put that left pin in upside down. There's a tiny taper on one end presumably to assist dropping in like he did, the right one was flat but the left had the taper.
Hold up, LPL. You just machined a totally new key for a lock that follows exactly zero common standards? On top of lawyering, locksport, and running a RUclips channel? Your repertoire is seriously impressive. I don't know how you have time for it all.
He watches, and comments on, several RUclips channels, as well as frequently mentioning BosnianBill's videos. So, it's safe to say he does watch RUclips. He just practices picking locks while watching them.
I was so sad when he said "that's all I have for you today". I was thinking "I really wanted to see him put it back together". So incredibly glad he turned his camera back on and decided to show us! Thank you LPL!!
Mr. Lockpicking Lawyer, your channel brings me much joy. I never would have noticed such intricate and precise mechanisms fulminate into the art that you present to us. This lock, and this key, harmony. Simple? Hell no. Beautiful? Hell yes. Steampunk catharsis vibes. I wish to thank you for your efforts. I'm just a simple gorilla strapped to a jetpack.
Can we all just admire the key for a minute? No only is it double pronged, but he knurled the end and made it out of brass so it looks like it came with the lock. Really well done and the lock looks like it can be rekeyed if you ever needed to change it.
That's what's so go great about The LPL. I would have been just as impressed had he fashioned a key for this with a tin can and a pair of snips as I am with him machining and hand-making the brass beauty. If I could choose, it'd be this machined beauty though.
He HAD to re-key the lock- it had no key when he received the lock, so he had to pick it open, disassemble it, design a key to fit the keyways with his own arbitrary bitting, then reassemble the sliders to match his key. LPL: NBD. Jeebus.
@@r0cketplumber Really goes to show that he knows his way around all sorts of locks, not just the standard ones. A true professional in the field of lockpicking
@@PanduPoluan Contemporary advertising shows that the original key had a flat bow/head (never knew the term until now!), offset slightly, with a large "S" in the style of the Salsbury logo, with what looks like the key serial number underneath. I did include a link to an copy of the image in an earlier comment, but it doesn't appear to be showing (possibly because of the URL).
The general concept here doesn't seem much different than a modern Kwikset SmartKey, though the dual-key design and the presentation are absolutely above and beyond.
As you took the lock apart I knew my question would be: How difficult was it to put it all back together? Then you came back and did exactly that 🤣👍🏻 And it's quite unique and beautiful at the same time.
I worked for the USPS for 10 years and Salsbury was the lock supplier for cluster box units for apartment buildings, town house communities, mobile home parks, etc. where a central delivery placement was required . I believe this is the same company . Salsbury Industries. They are in California. (since 1936) The lock may have come from England but I think it may be American. Perhaps this was an experiment into the pad lock business ?? The company is a major supplier of mailbox security locks and the box units and lockers for institutional and industrial use. Wafer locks seem to be the majority of their product. Perhaps an email to the company would shed some light on this unique lock.
The US location is probably just a US subsidiary. Salsbury may not even be the company name, it may be the city it was made in. edit; the company seems to be out of business. "Salsbury Locks converted from a private to a public limited company (plc) in March 1984, but were recorded as dissolved by 1989." see comment by past presented. (above, near the top)
That is a beautiful and fascinating lock design! I love it when they are taken apart but I love it even more when it gets put back together! Thank you as always for sharing.
Oooh, I bet that brass ring on the outside is a dust guard! Since the two halves aren't threaded to close tightly and are instead able to be adjusted and secured in place with a set screw, without that brass collar, the gap between the two halves could allow for dust and grime ingress, so the collar covers the seam and keeps scunge out.
And on a slightly different model, I assume the collar could be fashioned with a ring to accept a chain lanyard so the lock can't be lost. Shouldn't be too hard to have a different latching mechanism too that this simply threads onto through a door or panel, so it makes a proprietary but reusable "core".
Looks like it started as a piece of brass bar stock. he would have turned it down to the correct diameter, knurled the end, bored centre, cut the two key ways to shape, parted it off and then filed the bitting. All but the last step is basic machining and he has a lathe and mill drill in the workshop.
@@marvindebot3264 The funny part is that he could've filed any bitting (that fits the lock) because he can just reassemble it to fit the key he made...
What a beautiful and clever old lock. Thanks for showing us the picking, gutting and reassembly, and thanks to the viewer who contributed this neat old lock so we could all enjoy it.
Sooooo glad you decided to reassemble the lock on camera. The craftsmanship of the lock is awesome and the key you made is ...well...brilliant. Thanks for a fabulous video and thanks to the wonderful person who sent this lock to you.
As to that ring, it may be there to prevent the lock jamming if the top is inserted too tight. Being that the body is 100% brass if you tighten that too too much it could jam tightly requiring tools to loosen it up, the ring provides two separate surfaces that prevents that from happening.
@@PDeRop I would estimate that brass can cold-weld if surfaces are staight enough and you press them together strongly enough with sliding action to remove oxidation from both surfaces. I would guess threading doesn't allow enough sliding to remove the oxidation .
Check out Lock Noob's channel. He does picking videos and usually guts the locks after picking them. He also has a second channel, "Side Noob", where he does reassembly videos if the lock is really interesting. A bunch of other locksport channels also do teardown/gut/disassembly of locks after picking them. Another channel besides Lock Noob that I really like and just discovered recently is called "Joe Picks Locksport". His videos are really similar to LPL to me, because he does picking videos, takes the locks apart, and has a really nice voice lol. I think he's done reassembly on a few locks, but not many.
I know that the shorter videos are more trendy and get more views, but I appreciate your taking the time to do a disassembly and reassembly. I miss those videos.
Excellent video, thank you for taking the time to put this video together for us and really appreciate that you showed us the reassembly. That is something I don't seem to remember you doing often, if at all. As usual, the success of this video is not a fluke! Keep them coming, please, and when able more assembly vids!
Another fascinating video all 'round. The picking, disassembly and reassembly are so cool to watch, and your narration explains it all along the way. Whether it's a superb lock or a waste of metal, it's cool to watch & learn how it works or doesn't work. Thanks!
Very well picked and very well re-assembled! Yes, an unusual lock I haven't seen before and I am from England. I really thought at first this was going to be a nightmare challenge to put back together - but this is the lock picking lawyer! Thank you for sharing.
This is one of the best locks I've ever seen on this channel from a pure engineering perspective. Disc detainer locks are generally pretty solid modern locks, but this one is extremely well designed for how old it is. The fact it can be physically rekeyed using gear teeth makes it quite unique. The only improvement I can think of is to have the threads perfectly aligned so that the set screw is largely unnecessary.
How old do you think it is? Based on the patent being filed in 1981 this is a pretty modern lock. Seems like LPL also did not realise this when he titled the video.
@@DaffyDuc69 anything younger than me isn’t vintage 😂. Seriously though the disc detainer mechanism is more than a century old - 40 years isn’t vintage in this context.
@@mgboyes These young'uns don't realize what it's like from the vantage point of six-tenths of a century. Forty years ago I was going on my first date! Okay, late starter, but you understand. I keep thinking if a business is circa 1970, it's still too young to be trusted.
Beautiful lock. I loved the disassembly and was almost disappointed before I heard you mention that you are going to film the reassembly. A real treat to watch, thanks LPL!
What a lovely bit of engineering, Common parts for every possible "keying" of the lock yet also pretty secure. That was a top designer and production engineer working together to make that.
I'd love to see a video on how this was designed. Before CAD, what did they do, just imagine the whole thing in their head and sketch out the individual components? Impressive.
That's what impressed me about this design. From a production standpoint it is quite ingenious. The circular design combined with the notched brackets means that you only need to produce a very limited number of different parts in order to cover the full spectrum of configurations, and every lock made uses the same set of parts. Logistically, it must have made the production process much simpler than with more standard lock designs. I would assume that the production facility also featured specialized brackets/vises to make assembly easier than the "free floating" assembly LPL performed here.
I think what you may have there is a typical "apprentice piece" - ie a piece made by an apprentice fitter/turner in one of the forces or a prestigious British manufacturer mid 20th century. I was an Artificer in the Royal Navy and that is the kind of complexity of pieces apprentices had to learn.The other possibility is that it was a "lock designer apprentice piece" but not your average run of the mill lock as that would have taken many, many hours to make- and so would have been prohibitively expensive to produce for general sale -considering how easily you picked it, it's security rating would have made it un-viable to produce.
@@volvo09 yes it was basicly a final exam for apprentices. My father who was a joiner made a complex but small chest of draws for his. It's also the same root word as masterpiece.
@@masheroz Indeed. An apprentice learned the basics, then became a journeyman to extend his knowledge, and finally returned home with a masterpiece, demonstrating to the Masters of the Guild he was himself one of their number, bringing new insight. The system started in the second half of the 14th Century.
Thank you for the reassembly section of the video! actually seeing it go back together, how all the different parts interact really helped me understand the lock quite a lot better.
My primary school in Herstmonceux (South East England) back in the 80's had one of these locks on a tool box, I remember wondering if it was 1x key or 2x keys to unlock it. Sadly that where my knowledge about this lock ends. (Nice trip down memory lane tho)
That's actually very interesting, I was pretty convinced it wasn't British because I haven't been able to find anything for a "salsbury" here in the uk, nothing related on companies house and no sold or for sale items etc. Well except a few imported leftover mailboxes from the American company that were salvaged from an air base and stuck on Facebook. But to have two instances of one of these locks showing up here is making me question that
Could be a lock originating from Salisbury with a medieval spelling of its name on the lock. It is a city located in Wiltshire between Bristol and Portsmouth.
@@fredichon that seems far less likely since the mediaeval spelling of Salisbury is sarisberie, its never been called salsbury and neither was the salesbury in Lancashire which was spelled salesbyry. Etymologically speaking Salsbury is a derivative of Salisbury rather than the other way around. Although that derivative did make its way into use as a family name, naming your company in the uk what most would percieve as a misspelled place name is just bad business, because even if they don't see it and think it is misspelled when they recall the name of your business it will always be recalled by the "incorrect" spelling in that context
I started picking locks because of your videos and everytime I get frustrated I come back here and watcha video of you gracefully opening something way harder than what I was frustrated with. It helps me through a lot
What a cool and unique design! I like how it almost feels user-friendly, being seemingly super easy to reprogram! I love the idea of some engineer trying to solve the classic problems of how to make a lock and coming up with this really great design.
That has to be one of the most intricate designed locks I have ever seen but yet still simple to rekey etc. Great video! Now I want one of these locks.
It would be neat if the original intention for this design included two keys that fit together to then facilitate the unlock. The keys would be intended to be held by two authorities to ensure two person integrity(TPI).
The reassembly actually helped show how rekeying this lock would be quite easy, but still very secure. And since it is quite unusual your average amateur lock picker would find this quite challenging. Fascinating lock all around!
Thank you, LPL. This was one of the most fun videos you've done in a while (at least, from my perspective as a fan in the locksport community). I know the average random youtuber has the attention span of a ferret on angel dust, but for us in the community, we dig these longer ones.
Here in Canada, Salsbury makes locks for the Post... My assumption is that they do the same in England... As a wild guess, I would say this is a mail bag lock, and is probably not as vintage as you might assume. It certainly looks like a mail bag lock
It's definitely not vintage, very modern design and construction. If it is vintage, it was way ahead of its time. You can re key this thing, that's unbelievable
@@samadbaksh he said it's more than 30 years old. 30 years isn't really vintage, is it? I don't know about locks but I wouldn't call anything that was made in the 1990s vintage 🤷🏼♀️
@@Jehty_ you must also ask the question why is this key re-keyable. What's was the purpose of this lock that a person could redo its key. It even came without a key. One of a kind.
@@samadbaksh being re-keyable could also just be for ease of manufacturing. That way all the 'sliders' are the same and that makes manufacturing easier. And I don't understand what you are trying to say with the "no key" part. I have a lot of locks without keys. That doesn't make them unique. It just means that I lost the key.
@@Jehty_ you got it all wrong, I understand you can lose your keys. I am trying to state that because of this locks specific design, that key may become useless and someone could re-key.
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This seems to be a version of the lock described in the following article from the trade journal "Sheet Metal Industries" (vol. 60, 1982):
_"A new type of locking system has been introduced by Salsbury Locks Ltd. Salsbury Locks has designed a lock that is claimed to be easy to service and that could be easily and quickly changed to operate with a different key when necessary. The result is known as the segmented instant differ cylinder system, in which the number of combinations possible is up to 4000 million. The locks operate with a dual-bladed key, which can be split in two if required so that the lock remains secure unless attended by both keyholders. Another advantage of the cylinder is that it is made in four lengths, which enables the user to select and control which personnel have access to different parts of an organisation."_
Salsbury Locks converted from a private to a public limited company (plc) in March 1984, but were recorded as dissolved by 1989. The lock is presumably an example of the design for which a US patent was applied by Michael A. Salsbury of South Godstone, England, in 1981 and granted (# 4429555) in February 1984.
It seems from the patent that the key LPL made is quite similar to the original
Well done good sir. Have a like and major brownie points for your efforts.
This should be up-voted more tbh.
4 billion possibility's would mean 16 tooths on each side, sounds more like a concept than a working product. but if they do make longer cilinders than this one and the frst 2 tooths of the key are identical to this one i think it is possible that its about the same product.
Patents Assigned to Multikey Ltd.
Revolving cylinder locks
Patent number: 4429555
Abstract: A revolving cylinder lock having a locking pin extending parallel to the axis of rotation of a barrel part within a cylindric passage and, in the locked condition, received in both a first cavity part extending into the wall of the passage and a second cavity part extending into the barrel and unlocking means angularly displaceable about the axis by a key to an unlocking position and retained between inner and outer guide surfaces and having an edge surface operatively associated with the outer guide surface and the pin and configured normally to retain the pin in the locked condition and, in the unlocking position to release the pin from engagement in the first cavity part and allow the barrel part to be rotatable relative to the housing, means being provided to urge the unlocking means away from the unlocking position.
Type: Grant
Filed: April 1, 1981
Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
Assignee: Multikey Ltd.
Inventor: Michael A. Salsbury
My father Michael Salsbury designed this unique padlock in the early eighties as well as door locks, and I can see from the comment below from PastPresented, they have done some research and found out some information about Salsbury Locks, so thank you for sharing. Thank you also to LockPickingLawyer for sharing the dismantling and reassembly of the padlock!
Michael Salsbury started a company called Multikey Security Services Ltd 50 years ago and it is still going strong, being run by my brother. He then set up Salsbury Locks which sadly dissolved by 1989. My father passed away a couple of years ago but would be chuffed to see one of his creations being played on RUclips!
This channel is truly incredible thanks to not only the videos but this information directly from the family of the lockmaker. Thank you so much for sharing and providing some background to your family history and the history of this unique design!
This comment should be pinned on top by the LPL...
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Amazing thanks for your response
Bro my dad is Elon Musk and he is the CEO of Tesla. I eat dinner with him every day
Whoever sent him that lock gave him the best gift he's received this year. That's the most excitement I've seen from him.
I would love to see a video of how you made the key. Not just the physical machining but also how you decoded the lock, how you determined the material you would use, designing the aesthetics of the key etc... I'd like to see, and learn, how you think through solutions.
He probably picked it, opened it, keyed it from the inside view, then reassembled it before the video.
@@marc21256 You can see from the video that the lock can be re-keyed as well.
Contemporary advertising shows that the original key had a flat bow/head (never knew the term until now!), offset slightly, with a large "S" in the style of the Salsbury logo, with what looks like the key serial number underneath. I did include a link to an copy of the image in an earlier comment, but it doesn't appear to be showing (possibly because of the URL).
He probably never decoded the lock. He just picked it, then disassembled it, then made an arbitrary key, then reassembled the lock around the key, thus rekeying the lock.
The collective sigh of relief when you got the core back into the lock body without it falling apart was felt around the world.
Take 31…action!
I thought he would have wrapped a paper around it then slid it out.
It was a fluke.
No way I have the dexterous skills or patience to get that back together. When all those parts fell out, I would've been done.
@@AyarARJ Must be, he didn't do it again.
Watching him disassemble then reassemble the lock is one of the most fascinating sections I've seen in an LPL video and am intrigued enough to want more.
Go and look up BosnianBill. He’s retired now but still probably the most well known in the lock sport community.
You’ll enjoy his videos.
A lot of the older LPL videos involved lock disassembly.
@@ribbitfrog but the reassembly is the real treat here
@@MrDo99er This. Not many people show themselves reassembling locks after breaking them down. This is the first LPL video that I can remember of him actually putting a lock back together on camera, and I wish he'd do it (both disassembly and reassembly) more often.
@@ribbitfrog yup! dang, I've been here a whileee lol
I *love* these videos. I got to the end of the disassembly, heard him start his normal close-out, and thought to myself “I kinda want to see how that’s put back together”…
Where can I get the sparrows magneto? It is out of stock everywhere I check?
@@hilo2-est3-elev lolwut? You're asking the wrong person dude
Interesting for sure. I think I'd take pictures along the way for reassembly purposes.
Wow. A 9 minute video from LPL. That lock really got his attention! Fascinating to see the engineering and components inside. Kudos for the new key too
@@Obie1844 Maybe if it was featuring every single type of Masterlock Lock
Salsbury probably saw their lock on here and was like, "Oh crap!" then saw a video length longer than 2 minutes and felt much better. Great video!
he honored the lock by using a key
@@sarowie Agree. Also with the take apart/ rebuild walkthrough.
Yeah, you know it's bad when the time is below the 90-second mark.
LPL gives it a "it's not going to stop a skilled picker for very long." Which sounds like a bad rating, but is actually pretty high praise for a lock featured on this channel.
@@ulls66 I'd consider that since this lock is unusual in design it will anyway be a bit more of an obstacle for a picker.
I think this is the most fun I've seen LPL have in years, and not that he hasn't had fun, I could just feel the "man with a new toy vibe" in his voice!
You must have missed the video he released on April 1st of this year. Best LPL video to date.
I think you mean "man with a new toy" vibe in his voice.
Yup. He loves when he finds something new or rarer still something that actually challenges him. It's a shame most commercial locks can't do that.
I thought the same. It was a very old school video but this time added in reassembly. Nice.
@@timothyreed7241 ohhhh shhhhh stpp the cap lol 😂😂😂
Right when I was thinking "How the hell does he clean that yard sale up!" He cleans it up in just a minute. Very impressive. Thank you for showing the reassembly.
I really want to see the lock collection in it's entirety at some point. How do you store all those locks? How do you organize/categorize them?
I know you value privacy and all that, but surely there's a way to let us experience that?
Great content as always
I reckon LPL has a long footbridge in his back garden, with all the locks 'locked' onto the bridge (love-lock style), on one side, with all the keys hooked onto the other side 🙂 so nobody can steal them without first finding the right key! Or they go through a "Right-Of-Passage" and pick it off LOL!
Pretty straightforward, really. Keeps them all locked away.
let @bigstackd take a look
His first lock in inside a box that is locked with his second lock, which is inside a box that is secured by his third lock, and so on.
It takes him about twenty minutes to access the first lock, and even less time if he uses the keys.
I like to imagine he locks them all together into one giant chain and hangs in around his living room like garland. Could even hang ornaments on for the festive times of year.
Really fascinating. Never seen a lock like that before. Would love to see how you machined the key.
I second that!
@Don't Read My Profile Photo your reverse psychology wont work on me, bot.
Definitely would love to see how you made that key.
I second this motion
I think the engineering behind making the key is just as fascinating as the lock itself !! Would like to see that.
I love that you machined a key for it. And not just a simple key that works. But a well designed, good looking and well functioning one at that!
The knurling...
Luckily this is a collector's lock and not for regular use, because good luck putting that on a keychain.
@@DinnerForkTongue Just would need a hole bored thru the knurled bit.
That was very impressive!
@@nb2vcxz I mean it’s a key, does it really need to look good?
Just watching this lock get put back together is really impressive. We're watching a master with thousands of hours of experience.
Except he put that left pin in upside down. There's a tiny taper on one end presumably to assist dropping in like he did, the right one was flat but the left had the taper.
We are?
The engineering talent it requires to create these locks, is so far beyond my intelligence, it truly makes it fascinating to see it opened.
Hold up, LPL. You just machined a totally new key for a lock that follows exactly zero common standards? On top of lawyering, locksport, and running a RUclips channel? Your repertoire is seriously impressive. I don't know how you have time for it all.
He also has raised a family, and has an impressive firearm collection, which he knows how to use.
He doesn't waste time watching youtube.
He watches, and comments on, several RUclips channels, as well as frequently mentioning BosnianBill's videos. So, it's safe to say he does watch RUclips. He just practices picking locks while watching them.
@@papasyscon6037 woosh bro
It's a matter of not procrastinating. You can get a lot done if you just get to it.
The designer of this lock must have had a great day when they came up with this. Very different, not to complex, and absolutely beautiful.
And it's even re-keyable...
I was so sad when he said "that's all I have for you today". I was thinking "I really wanted to see him put it back together". So incredibly glad he turned his camera back on and decided to show us!
Thank you LPL!!
Mr. Lockpicking Lawyer, your channel brings me much joy.
I never would have noticed such intricate and precise mechanisms fulminate into the art that you present to us.
This lock, and this key, harmony.
Simple?
Hell no.
Beautiful?
Hell yes.
Steampunk catharsis vibes.
I wish to thank you for your efforts.
I'm just a simple gorilla strapped to a jetpack.
Can we all just admire the key for a minute? No only is it double pronged, but he knurled the end and made it out of brass so it looks like it came with the lock. Really well done and the lock looks like it can be rekeyed if you ever needed to change it.
Agree! I though _that_ was the original key!
That's what's so go great about The LPL. I would have been just as impressed had he fashioned a key for this with a tin can and a pair of snips as I am with him machining and hand-making the brass beauty. If I could choose, it'd be this machined beauty though.
He HAD to re-key the lock- it had no key when he received the lock, so he had to pick it open, disassemble it, design a key to fit the keyways with his own arbitrary bitting, then reassemble the sliders to match his key.
LPL: NBD. Jeebus.
@@r0cketplumber Really goes to show that he knows his way around all sorts of locks, not just the standard ones. A true professional in the field of lockpicking
@@PanduPoluan Contemporary advertising shows that the original key had a flat bow/head (never knew the term until now!), offset slightly, with a large "S" in the style of the Salsbury logo, with what looks like the key serial number underneath. I did include a link to an copy of the image in an earlier comment, but it doesn't appear to be showing (possibly because of the URL).
I quite like how the individual sliders are completely interchangeable: it makes rekeying possible without any additional parts.
The general concept here doesn't seem much different than a modern Kwikset SmartKey, though the dual-key design and the presentation are absolutely above and beyond.
I would enjoy having one of these locks, not only looks entertaining to pic but actually looks pretty cool just sitting on the desk!!! 🤠👍
As you took the lock apart I knew my question would be: How difficult was it to put it all back together?
Then you came back and did exactly that 🤣👍🏻
And it's quite unique and beautiful at the same time.
*"unique and beautiful at the same time."*
Agreed.
A much longer video than usual. Thank you for making the extra effort to show us both the disassembly and the reassembly. That was fascinating!
I worked for the USPS for 10 years and Salsbury was the lock supplier for cluster box units for apartment buildings, town house communities, mobile home parks, etc. where a central delivery placement was required . I believe this is the same company . Salsbury Industries. They are in California. (since 1936) The lock may have come from England but I think it may be American. Perhaps this was an experiment into the pad lock business ?? The company is a major supplier of mailbox security locks and the box units and lockers for institutional and industrial use. Wafer locks seem to be the majority of their product. Perhaps an email to the company would shed some light on this unique lock.
It’s entirely possible that there is also a British company by the same name given it is a place name in England
@@MysticWanderer Though the place name is spelled with an 'i'.
@@chaos.corner indeed it is. Salisbury (pronounced sawlsbry) is in Wiltshire, England.
The US location is probably just a US subsidiary. Salsbury may not even be the company name, it may be the city it was made in.
edit; the company seems to be out of business.
"Salsbury Locks converted from a private to a public limited company (plc) in March 1984, but were recorded as dissolved by 1989." see comment by past presented. (above, near the top)
@@Honda_Hooligan my hometown 💪🏼
One of your coolest videos in a while, I'd love to see the machining of the key in another video!
That is a beautiful and fascinating lock design! I love it when they are taken apart but I love it even more when it gets put back together! Thank you as always for sharing.
I love unique locks. Like you can only dunk on Master Locks so much before it gets a bit old
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I dunno, there’s an entertainingly large number of ways that Master sucks. The suck doesn’t vary but the exact details are a constellation.
I love the custom key you made for it as well - particularly that you kept the same brassy material so it matches the lock.
What a beautiful and unique piece of craftsmanship this lock is!
There have been so many great LPL videos but this may be one of my favorites. The reassembly was a treat to watch.
Oooh, I bet that brass ring on the outside is a dust guard! Since the two halves aren't threaded to close tightly and are instead able to be adjusted and secured in place with a set screw, without that brass collar, the gap between the two halves could allow for dust and grime ingress, so the collar covers the seam and keeps scunge out.
Good point!
Or splash, given the UK.
And on a slightly different model, I assume the collar could be fashioned with a ring to accept a chain lanyard so the lock can't be lost. Shouldn't be too hard to have a different latching mechanism too that this simply threads onto through a door or panel, so it makes a proprietary but reusable "core".
a simple o-ring would do a much better job at keeping dust out
I like he nonchalantly says, "it didn't come with a key, so I machined one." I'm sure many of us would be interested in seeing how you made the key.
Looks like it started as a piece of brass bar stock. he would have turned it down to the correct diameter, knurled the end, bored centre, cut the two key ways to shape, parted it off and then filed the bitting. All but the last step is basic machining and he has a lathe and mill drill in the workshop.
@@marvindebot3264 The funny part is that he could've filed any bitting (that fits the lock) because he can just reassemble it to fit the key he made...
@@Steamrick True, well, any of the four possible anyway.
@@Steamrick Question is:
did LPL machine the key to fit the existing bidding or he customized the Lock bidding to the key?
“This is the KeyMachiningLawyer… and today I will be making a skeleton key for a badly corroded 16th century ceremonial lock..”
I can see it.
That is just beautiful. Love the design and craftsmanship of that lock!
What a beautiful and clever old lock. Thanks for showing us the picking, gutting and reassembly, and thanks to the viewer who contributed this neat old lock so we could all enjoy it.
The reassembly is even more impressive! I for one went “oh God” when all the pieces just fell out on the pinning tray.
You weren't alone.
That would have been my "flip the table and walk away" moment.
What a cool lock! I love it when we get a disassemble! And here we get the reassemble too, what a bonus!
Sooooo glad you decided to reassemble the lock on camera. The craftsmanship of the lock is awesome and the key you made is ...well...brilliant. Thanks for a fabulous video and thanks to the wonderful person who sent this lock to you.
Reassembly is such a rare treat! I absolutely LOVE watching you reassemble these intricate little pieces.
Machining that key would be a fascinating video in itself.
As to that ring, it may be there to prevent the lock jamming if the top is inserted too tight. Being that the body is 100% brass if you tighten that too too much it could jam tightly requiring tools to loosen it up, the ring provides two separate surfaces that prevents that from happening.
That sounds right but instead of the body jamming, I think it would actually bind up the locking mechanism it it was screwed too tightly.
Can Brass cold-weld?
@@PDeRop I would estimate that brass can cold-weld if surfaces are staight enough and you press them together strongly enough with sliding action to remove oxidation from both surfaces. I would guess threading doesn't allow enough sliding to remove the oxidation .
I do love the engineering on this lock. Thank you for the pick, tear-down and reassembly.
Something BEAUTIFUL about the reassembly. Thank you 🙏
A video longer than 5 minutes? You know immediately: it must be a really interesting lock that has fallen into the hands of the LockPickingLawyer 👍
Same here. My first thought was: "longer than a minute, so he's showing us something intresting and it's not a master lock"
@@mirastor1796 or it is a montage of the 105,874 ½ ways to open a master lock with a pop tab
I always love a teardown video. Since Bosnian Bill is retired you really should do more.
Check out Lock Noob's channel. He does picking videos and usually guts the locks after picking them. He also has a second channel, "Side Noob", where he does reassembly videos if the lock is really interesting.
A bunch of other locksport channels also do teardown/gut/disassembly of locks after picking them. Another channel besides Lock Noob that I really like and just discovered recently is called "Joe Picks Locksport". His videos are really similar to LPL to me, because he does picking videos, takes the locks apart, and has a really nice voice lol. I think he's done reassembly on a few locks, but not many.
This was beautiful to watch, watching an expert do something like this with such passion 🥰
If I ever find a weird lock, imma send it to him
This is my new favorite lock from the channel! Such an interesting mechanism and the assembly/disassembly was very interesting to see.
I know that the shorter videos are more trendy and get more views, but I appreciate your taking the time to do a disassembly and reassembly. I miss those videos.
Shout out to fellow UK viewers. Love this channel !
Hi from Yorkshire.
Excellent video, thank you for taking the time to put this video together for us and really appreciate that you showed us the reassembly. That is something I don't seem to remember you doing often, if at all. As usual, the success of this video is not a fluke! Keep them coming, please, and when able more assembly vids!
Another fascinating video all 'round. The picking, disassembly and reassembly are so cool to watch, and your narration explains it all along the way. Whether it's a superb lock or a waste of metal, it's cool to watch & learn how it works or doesn't work. Thanks!
Very well picked and very well re-assembled! Yes, an unusual lock I haven't seen before and I am from England. I really thought at first this was going to be a nightmare challenge to put back together - but this is the lock picking lawyer! Thank you for sharing.
Salusbury still exist, in LA!
You’re doing great work, always showing us unique items
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Fascinating, thanks for sharing your love of the lock. You have a unique talent..
The reassembly really helped me understand how this one worked. Thanks for taking the extra time to go back and film that!
I loved the complex flavors of their steaks as a kid. Their locks look pretty complex and satisfying too.
This is one of the best locks I've ever seen on this channel from a pure engineering perspective. Disc detainer locks are generally pretty solid modern locks, but this one is extremely well designed for how old it is. The fact it can be physically rekeyed using gear teeth makes it quite unique. The only improvement I can think of is to have the threads perfectly aligned so that the set screw is largely unnecessary.
A ball detent would also do the trick.
How old do you think it is? Based on the patent being filed in 1981 this is a pretty modern lock. Seems like LPL also did not realise this when he titled the video.
@@mgboyes That's still a 41 year old lock.
@@DaffyDuc69 anything younger than me isn’t vintage 😂.
Seriously though the disc detainer mechanism is more than a century old - 40 years isn’t vintage in this context.
@@mgboyes These young'uns don't realize what it's like from the vantage point of six-tenths of a century. Forty years ago I was going on my first date! Okay, late starter, but you understand. I keep thinking if a business is circa 1970, it's still too young to be trusted.
Beautiful lock. I loved the disassembly and was almost disappointed before I heard you mention that you are going to film the reassembly. A real treat to watch, thanks LPL!
Thank you LPL for another great vid and showing the reassembly. God bless!
Future video:
LPL: “this is the pick that bill and i made for this lock and is now available in the covert companion buy now”
Perfecct! Was just thinking to myself "Would love to see this one put back together again." Lo and behold, there he goes :) Great job as always 👍
Uses lock pick to help assemble a lock
One of the most intriguing videos I've seen from you! Very cool piece of kit there and I'm glad it was demonstrated by the Master.
The reassembly was the right move. That definitely made it much more clear how the lock worked. Much appreciated.
What a lovely bit of engineering, Common parts for every possible "keying" of the lock yet also pretty secure. That was a top designer and production engineer working together to make that.
I'd love to see a video on how this was designed. Before CAD, what did they do, just imagine the whole thing in their head and sketch out the individual components? Impressive.
@@IvnSoft or rather not using (and have no internet to procrastinate) so designing this lock was their best part of the day.
Master lock REALLY needs to find that designer.
@@cortexreaver9484 He sells steaks now. Yes, really.
That's what impressed me about this design. From a production standpoint it is quite ingenious. The circular design combined with the notched brackets means that you only need to produce a very limited number of different parts in order to cover the full spectrum of configurations, and every lock made uses the same set of parts. Logistically, it must have made the production process much simpler than with more standard lock designs. I would assume that the production facility also featured specialized brackets/vises to make assembly easier than the "free floating" assembly LPL performed here.
I think what you may have there is a typical "apprentice piece" - ie a piece made by an apprentice fitter/turner in one of the forces or a prestigious British manufacturer mid 20th century. I was an Artificer in the Royal Navy and that is the kind of complexity of pieces apprentices had to learn.The other possibility is that it was a "lock designer apprentice piece" but not your average run of the mill lock as that would have taken many, many hours to make- and so would have been prohibitively expensive to produce for general sale -considering how easily you picked it, it's security rating would have made it un-viable to produce.
What that to prove and show their skill in manufacturing and machining a complex mechanism?
@@volvo09 yes it was basicly a final exam for apprentices. My father who was a joiner made a complex but small chest of draws for his. It's also the same root word as masterpiece.
@@volvo09 Yeah. Apprentices in many field would have to build what is essentially a final exam piece.
@@volvo09 literally, their masterpiece. To show they are no longer an apprentice.
@@masheroz Indeed. An apprentice learned the basics, then became a journeyman to extend his knowledge, and finally returned home with a masterpiece, demonstrating to the Masters of the Guild he was himself one of their number, bringing new insight. The system started in the second half of the 14th Century.
Thank you for sharing this with us, I was a locksmith for 4 years, and this was amazing to watch
That reassembly was really interesting. It was so much more straight forward and simple than I would have initially imagined.
Came for the picking, and stayed all the way through disassembly and assembly, that was really cool!
I miss these videos where you take the lock apart! More please! Awesome video! 💯💯💯
Thank you for the reassembly section of the video! actually seeing it go back together, how all the different parts interact really helped me understand the lock quite a lot better.
Thanks for going back and showing the reassembly. It really helps with understanding how the locking mechanism works.
Wow, what a cool lock! It's kinda like one of those dual custody locks you have, but it's the first one I've seen that isn't Soviet in origin.
I want to see how you made the key! This lock is so cool!
Very nice video. I really like the reassembly part, as it gives an insight into the lock and how it works.
What a neat lock design. Thanks for sharing.
Seeing locks coming back to life by machining custom keys is pretty awesome!
My primary school in Herstmonceux (South East England) back in the 80's had one of these locks on a tool box, I remember wondering if it was 1x key or 2x keys to unlock it.
Sadly that where my knowledge about this lock ends. (Nice trip down memory lane tho)
That's actually very interesting, I was pretty convinced it wasn't British because I haven't been able to find anything for a "salsbury" here in the uk, nothing related on companies house and no sold or for sale items etc. Well except a few imported leftover mailboxes from the American company that were salvaged from an air base and stuck on Facebook. But to have two instances of one of these locks showing up here is making me question that
So probably commercial but not an apprentice piece. From Lewes!
Could be a lock originating from Salisbury with a medieval spelling of its name on the lock. It is a city located in Wiltshire between Bristol and Portsmouth.
@@fredichon that seems far less likely since the mediaeval spelling of Salisbury is sarisberie, its never been called salsbury and neither was the salesbury in Lancashire which was spelled salesbyry. Etymologically speaking Salsbury is a derivative of Salisbury rather than the other way around. Although that derivative did make its way into use as a family name, naming your company in the uk what most would percieve as a misspelled place name is just bad business, because even if they don't see it and think it is misspelled when they recall the name of your business it will always be recalled by the "incorrect" spelling in that context
@@Lilith-Rose wow.
I started picking locks because of your videos and everytime I get frustrated I come back here and watcha video of you gracefully opening something way harder than what I was frustrated with. It helps me through a lot
That's the coolest lock I've ever seen. The completely disassembleable half rings are a machining marvel. Thanks a million!
What a cool and unique design! I like how it almost feels user-friendly, being seemingly super easy to reprogram! I love the idea of some engineer trying to solve the classic problems of how to make a lock and coming up with this really great design.
Cool lock. Know nothing about lock picking but really glad you showed how to put it together.
Thank you for recording the reassembly procedure! Very interesting.
That has to be one of the most intricate designed locks I have ever seen but yet still simple to rekey etc. Great video! Now I want one of these locks.
It would be neat if the original intention for this design included two keys that fit together to then facilitate the unlock. The keys would be intended to be held by two authorities to ensure two person integrity(TPI).
I was about to share the same thought about this lock... I would be glad to have a confirmation about this.
That was my thought also.
The two keys being uniquely machined so they must marry up before inserting into the keyways.
Man knows how to deliver. I really wanted to see reassembly when he started to end the video and then he hits us with it right after. Love it!
Thank you for showing the reassembly. I truly enjoy your content.
Love to see you disassemble and reassemble locks for us! Thanks
The reassembly actually helped show how rekeying this lock would be quite easy, but still very secure. And since it is quite unusual your average amateur lock picker would find this quite challenging. Fascinating lock all around!
Did you not film the machining process? That would be great to watch. LPL going all Clickspring with brass on a lathe.
Thank you for sharing such an interesting lock. I really enjoyed the explanation of the workings and the re-assembly.
Thank you so much for showing the reassembly of the lock!!! Quite interesting.
What a unique and lovely item
Thank you, LPL. This was one of the most fun videos you've done in a while (at least, from my perspective as a fan in the locksport community). I know the average random youtuber has the attention span of a ferret on angel dust, but for us in the community, we dig these longer ones.
Liked for showing the re-assembly. I've been wanting to see a lock re-assembly for a long time now since I first saw you take one apart.
Super video... Unique lock, and thank you for showing it both assembled and dissassembled
That reassembly was way more satisfying than I could have hoped for. I'm so glad you got sent this lock and look forward to what you've got next.
Here in Canada, Salsbury makes locks for the Post... My assumption is that they do the same in England... As a wild guess, I would say this is a mail bag lock, and is probably not as vintage as you might assume. It certainly looks like a mail bag lock
It's definitely not vintage, very modern design and construction. If it is vintage, it was way ahead of its time. You can re key this thing, that's unbelievable
@@samadbaksh he said it's more than 30 years old.
30 years isn't really vintage, is it?
I don't know about locks but I wouldn't call anything that was made in the 1990s vintage 🤷🏼♀️
@@Jehty_ you must also ask the question why is this key re-keyable. What's was the purpose of this lock that a person could redo its key. It even came without a key. One of a kind.
@@samadbaksh being re-keyable could also just be for ease of manufacturing.
That way all the 'sliders' are the same and that makes manufacturing easier.
And I don't understand what you are trying to say with the "no key" part.
I have a lot of locks without keys. That doesn't make them unique. It just means that I lost the key.
@@Jehty_ you got it all wrong, I understand you can lose your keys. I am trying to state that because of this locks specific design, that key may become useless and someone could re-key.
Nice job on the reassembly! Thanks for taking the extra time to include the full process.
That should be fun to reassemble it, and I'm watching you do it as I type this...
Have a great day, thanks for the fun video !!